Earlier Decennial Census Information: 1980 and 1990 Censuses

Access datasets in our data archive pertaining to the 1990 Census or the 1980 Census. Of particular interest:

• stf903x2: standard extracts from the full 1990 stf3 datasets, as used in our 1990-2000 trends reports.
• stf803: complete 1980 STF3 tables for the entire country (one dataset per state).
• stf803x2: standard extracts derived from the corresponding stf803 datasets. This directory contains data for the entire country (one dataset per state), as well as some entire-US sets (uszips, usstcnty, usplaces).

Don't overlook our SF3 Trend Reports, which have 1990 and 2000 data for a wide range of geographic areas.

Basic Tables: 1990 Demographic Profile Reports are available for a wide range of geographic areas and levels. An alternative way to access these 1990 profiles is to invoke the Geographic Codes Lookup application and select the geographic area using the drop-down menus. Once you navigate to the geographic entity you want, click on the FIPS code / link to get to the data applications (aka "applinks") page for the area, and then choose the link to the 1990 Demographic Profile in the Census 1990 section.

Additional 1990 Census Data

• 1990 Technical Documentation, Summary Tape File 3
• U.S. Census Bureau 1990 Census Home Page
• The Archive of Census Related Products at CIESIN is a good source of 1990 census data. It even has a small amount of 1980 data.

Data From Earlier Censuses at the Census Bureau

For data from earlier censuses see this page at the Census Bureau. These collections (one per census back to 1790) of primarily printed reports have been greatly enhanced (circa 2012). This is a remarkable trove of historical census data.